chamuscar
Portuguese, verb/ʃa.musˈka(ʁ)/
chamuscar is spelled C-H-A-M-U-S-C-A-R (9 letters) and appears about once in every 69 million words in written Portuguese, the 229,473rd most frequent Portuguese word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Chamuscar is a Portuguese verb meaning “to singe (to burn slightly)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) defines it as “queimar, deixando marcas de carvão ou fuligem”.
What does chamuscar mean in English?
verb
- 1
to singe (to burn slightly)
Source: English Wiktionary, Portuguese section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How Portuguese dictionaries define it
verb: 1. queimar, deixando marcas de carvão ou fuligem 2. assar ligeiramente, tostar
The definition in the Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), in Portuguese.
Source: Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of chamuscar
- chamusco first-person present singular
- chamusquei first-person preterite singular
- chamuscado participle past
- c-qu alternation
- chamuscares infinitive second-person singular
- chamuscarmos first-person infinitive plural
- chamuscardes infinitive plural second-person
- chamuscarem infinitive plural third-person
- chamuscando gerund
- chamuscados masculine participle past
- chamuscada feminine participle past
- chamuscadas feminine participle past
- chamuscas indicative present second-person
- chamusca indicative present singular
- chamuscamos first-person indicative plural
- chamuscais indicative plural present
- chamuscam indicative plural present
- chamuscava first-person imperfect indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce chamuscar?
- Brazil /ʃa.musˈka(ʁ)/
- Brazil [ʃa.musˈka(h)]
- /ʃa.musˈka(ɾ)/
Sources: English Wiktionary, Portuguese Wiktionary (Wikcionário) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to chamuscar
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is chamuscar in Portuguese?
chamuscar appears about once in every 69 million words in written Portuguese.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).